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Membership of the 37th Congress of the United
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March 4, 1861 to
March 3, 1863 |
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First Session:
July 4, 1861 to August 6, 1861 |
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Second Session:
December 2, 1861 to July 17, 1862 |
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Third Session:
December 1, 1862 to March 3, 1863 |
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Special Session of
the Senate: March 4, 1861 to March 28, 1861 |
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Vice President of
the United States: |
Hannibal Hamlin
(Maine) |
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President Pro
Tempore of the Senate: |
Solomon Foot
(Vermont) |
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Secretary of the
Senate: |
Asbury Dickins
(North Carolina)
John W. Forney (Pennsylvania), from July 15, 1861 |
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Sergeant At Arms
of the Senate: |
Dunning Mcnair
(Pennsylvania)
George T. Brown (Illinois), from July 6, 1861 |
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Speaker of the
House of Representatives: |
Galusha A. Grow
(Pennsylvania) |
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Clerk of the
House: |
John W. Forney
(Pennsylvania)
Emerson Etheridge (Tennessee), from July 4, 1861 |
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Sergeant At Arms
of the House: |
Henry W. Hoffman
(Maryland)
Edward Ball (Ohio), from July 5, 1861 |
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Doorkeeper of the
House: |
Ira Goodnow
(Vermont) |
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Alabama
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California
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Senators
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Milton
S. Latham |
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James A. McDougall |
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Representatives At Large
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Timothy
G. Phelps |
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Aaron
A. Sargent |
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Frederick F. Low (presented credentials and claimed a seat as a
third representative from California December 2, 1861; declared
not entitled to a seat by resolution of May 6, 1862; upon
approval of the act of June 2, 1862, allowing the State of
California an additional representative, took his seat June 3,
1862.) |
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Florida
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Senators
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Representatives
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Vacant |
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Georgia
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Senators
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Representatives
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Illinois
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Senators
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Stephen A. Douglas (died of typhoid fever June 3, 1861) |
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Lyman Trumbull |
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Orville
H. Browning (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Stephen A. Douglas; served from June 26, 1861 to January 12, 1863, when William Richardson was elected) |
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William
A. Richardson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Stephen A. Douglas; served from January 30, 1863) |
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Representatives
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District 1: |
Elihu
B.
Washburne |
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District 2: |
Isaac
N. Arnold |
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District 3: |
Owen Lovejoy |
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District 4: |
William
Kellogg |
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District 5: |
William
A. Richardson
(resigned January 29, 1863 to become Senator) |
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District 6:
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John A. McClernand (resigned October 28, 1861 to accept a commission as brigadier general of Volunteers for service in the Civil War) |
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Anthony L. Knapp (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John
A. McClernand; served from December 12, 1861) |
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District 7: |
James
C. Robinson |
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District 8: |
Philip
B. Fouke |
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District 9:
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John A. Logan (resigned April 2, 1862) |
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William J. Allen (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John
A. Logan; served from June 2, 1862) |
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Louisiana
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Senators
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District 1: |
Benjamin F. Flanders
(served from December 3, 1862) |
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District 2: |
Michael Hahn (served from
December 3, 1862) |
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Mississippi
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Senators
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Representatives
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Missouri
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Senators
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Trusten Polk (expelled January 10, 1862 for support of the rebellion) |
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Waldo P. Johnson (served from March 17, 1861; expelled January 10, 1862 for disloyalty to the government) |
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John B. Henderson (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Trusten Polk; served from January 17, 1862) |
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Robert Wilson (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Waldo
P. Johnson; served from January 17, 1862) |
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Representatives
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District 1: |
Francis P. Blair, Jr.
(resigned July 1862 to become a colonel in the Union Army) |
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District 2: |
James S.
Rollins |
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District 3:
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John B. Clark (expelled
July 13, 1861 for having taken up arms against the Union) |
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William A. Hall (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of John B. Clark; served from January 20, 1862) |
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District 4: |
Elijah H.
Norton |
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District 5:
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John W. Reid (withdrew
August 3, 1861, expelled December 2, 1861 for having taken up arms against the Union) |
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Thomas L. Price (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of John W. Reid; served from January 21, 1862) |
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District 6: |
John S. Phelps |
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District 7: |
John W. Noell |
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Oregon
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Senators
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Edward D. Baker (killed October 21, 1861 in the Battle of Balls Bluff) |
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James W. Nesmith |
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Benjamin Stark (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward
D. Baker; served from October 29, 1861, to September 12, 1862, when Benjamin Harding was elected) |
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Benjamin
F. Harding (elected as to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward
D. Baker; served from September 12, 1862) |
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Representative At Large
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| Andrew J. Thayer (succeeded July 30, 1861 by George K. Shiel, who contested the election) |
| George K. Shiel (successfully contested the election of Andrew J. Thayer; served from July 30, 1861) |
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South Carolina
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Senators
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Representatives
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Tennessee
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Senators
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Andrew Johnson (resigned March 4, 1862) |
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Alfred O. P.
Nicholson (withdrew March 4, 1862) |
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Representatives
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| District 2: |
Horace Maynard |
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George W. Bridges (elected, but was arrested by Confederate troops while en route to Washington, DC, taken back to Tennessee, and held as a prisoner for more than a year; finally made his escape and went to Washington, DC, and assumed his duties; served from February 25, 1863) |
| District 4: |
Andrew J. Clements |
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Texas
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Senators
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John Hemphill (did not occupy his seat after March 4, 1861;
expelled by resolution of July 11, 1861) |
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Louis T. Wigfall (did not occupy his seat after March 23, 1861;
expelled by resolution of July 11, 1861) |
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Representatives
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